Quality Engineering Manager
At Qualtrics, our mission is to close experience gaps—the costly differences between what customers and employees expect, and what they’re receiving.
9,000+ organizations worldwide and more than 80% of the Fortune 100 rely on the Qualtrics Experience Management Platform™ to collect, analyze, and act on feedback—more feedback than they ever thought possible. With Qualtrics XM, organizations can manage the four core experiences of business—customer, employee, product, and brand experience. Organizations can be at every meaningful touchpoint, for every experience, and predict what will resonate most with customers and employees.
About the Team
Our team is a collection of deeply passionate engineers who are riding the groundbreaking of cloud computing and web scalability. We organize and sort terabytes of data and develop solutions used by millions of users every single day. We design tools that make sophisticated research simple. Our environment is primarily Java, Scala, C++, Go, JavaScript, Angular.JS, D3/C3, Node.js, MySQL NoSQL (MongoDB), AWS, Python, PHP, and Docker. In our collaborative culture, you find plenty of opportunities to impact our full-stack product; from Web & mobile UI to data visualization & analysis to microservices APIs to data storage & processing.
A Day in the Life
- Lead the end to end ownership of a Quality Engineering (QA) team, including setting the technical vision for developing test frameworks and automation for our systems
- Build and lead SDETs and STEs that are responsible for developing and maintaining software for testing our product
- Establish team metrics for measurement of quality and operational excellence and a consistent, regular process for assessment and improvement
- Show strong business and technical discernment that will accelerate time to market of releases, while incrementally moving our services towards the long term vision
- Be responsible for mentoring and developing engineers
- Raise the bar on technical perfection, show thought leadership, and communicate well to different audiences
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree and/or Master's degree in Computer Science or related
- A minimum of 5 years of management experience
- A minimum of 5 years of relevant testing experience
- 2+ years professional coding experience in a programming language like C#, or C++, knowledge of Java, JavaScript or Python preferred.
- 1+ years professional experience building test automation frameworks and tools from scratch
- Proficiency with a broad range of data structures, algorithms, and design patterns; knowing when it's appropriate to use them (and when it is not).
- Experience in testing high-performance, highly-available and scalable distributed systems
- Analytical skills and the abilities to analyze quantitatively, scope technical requirements and effectively prioritize program work
- Presentation and written interpersonal skills are important, as is the ability to build partnerships across distributed offices
What differentiates us from other companies
- Work life integration is deeply important to us - we have frequent office events, team outings, and happy hours.
- We take pride in our offices design aiming at cultivating creativity from our rooftop views to an open and collaborative work space.
- On top of standard benefits package (medical, dental, vision, life insurance, etc) we provide snacks, drinks, and free lunches in our office.
- We believe in sharing Qualtrics success which is part of the compensation for all employees.